Mafia adviser's meetings with Malcolm Turnbull, MPs

Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker   Slain gangland lawyer and Mafia associate Joe Acquaro spent two decades cultivating and donating to senior Liberal politicians on behalf of alleged crime figures, even having a private meeting with Malcolm Turnbull.

Macca's, Coles, Woolies staff underpaid thanks to cosy union deal

Ben Schneiders, Nick Toscano, Royce Millar   Burger giant McDonald's is underpaying its Australian workers tens of millions of dollars a year under a cosy deal struck with Labor's largest union affiliate that excluded weekend penalty rates.

Chinese interests donate to trade minister as free trade agreement signed

Gina McColl   A Chinese government-backed propaganda unit and a swag of companies that stand to gain from the China Australia Free Trade Agreement have made more than half a million dollars of political donations in Victoria.

Customs officials allegedly involved in smuggling

Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker   A network of Australian border security officials is allegedly working for organised criminals, including drug and tobacco smugglers, in the most serious corruption scandal to ever hit the nation's border agencies.

Gone sour: 'They've thrown us under a bus'

Michael Bachelard   Senior management knew very well their milk price was going sour. So why weren't Murray Goulburn's farmers told?

Toll giant wants to charge for all roads

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar   Jeff Kennett helped create a toll road monster. Now he says we are being ''ripped off'' and Transurban executives are 'laughing underwater'.

Unaoil: Code names and subterfuge. How our reporters got the story

NICK MCKENZIE The letter arrived via snail mail, and it read like a page from a Le Carre spy thriller.

Unaoil scandal and the Panama Papers

Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie   It was only a matter of time before the Panama Papers controversy and the Unaoil bribery scandal overlapped.

The world's biggest bribe scandal

It was the company with jet-set style and dirty hands. The beneficiaries? Some of the biggest companies in England, Europe, America and Australia. Read our full Unaoil coverage.

More revelations: the Unaoil scandal fallout 

Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Michael Bachelard, Daniel Quinlan   In a day of dramatic developments the Monaco company at the centre of Fairfax Media's global bribery revelations has been raided by police.

The world thinks Australia should lift its anti-corruption game

Nick McKenzie   Anti-corruption experts in the US and Europe have urged Australia to properly resource and empower its anti-bribery regime as Australia emerges as the "dumping ground" for dirty money from Asia.

Push for Serious Fraud Office

Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie   Australia should have a Serious Fraud and Corruption Office to tackle corporate crime and building industry rorts, according to the head of the nation's leading anti-corruption group.

Pressure mounts on ABC director

Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie   ABC board member Dr Kirstin Ferguson is under increasing pressure over her handling of a whistleblower who alerted her to a corruption scandal being covered-up by Australian corporate giant Leighton Holdings.

• Top director spurned corruption whistleblower as corporate scandal grows

Asylum seeker told he'll 'never live in Australia'

Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie   The Salvation Army has effectively urged Tamil asylum seekers on Manus Island to go home because: "You will never live in Australia".

Key union rorts Labor numbers

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar   One of Bill Shorten's closest political allies has inflated his union's membership levels in an apparent bid to boost the union's clout in the ALP and prop up the opposition leader's dominant right faction

Workers at Woolworths supplier paid a pittance, threatened

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar   A major supplier to supermarket giant Woolworths paid workers a pittance and threatened they would be replaced by machines

State grant for meat mogul inappropriate

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar   The state government approved regional grants to help the expansion of a business run by a wealthy horse-racing partner of Premier Denis Napthine despite advice that use of the funds was inappropriate.

Coles deal with shop union under further scrutiny

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar   A cosy deal between Coles and the shop assistants union that would have left tens of thousands of workers underpaid is under further scrutiny

Turnbull-backed sports venture faces wind-up

Royce Millar and Ben Schneiders   A firm that attracted financial backing from some of the country's glitterati is facing a wind-up action from former employees.